Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal

Education, Co-Inquiry, and Healing

Barbara A. Bickel, R. Michael Fisher

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781000814682
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This book contributes to a larger global call to radically re-create ourselves—to transform our fear and alienation from art, Nature, and ourselves. With compassion and grace, the co-authors outline how everyone may access the gift of Spontaneous Creation-Making and change dominant narratives of individualism. Discovering interconnectivity through art-care we can dream courageously together into the unknown possibilities of a precarious future.

Art-care, as coined by the co-authors, is a matrixial form of communicaring through art and reverence. This theoretically informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in Creation-centred ways that interweave the many parts with the whole. It provides examples of teachings, practices and spontaneous creations of makers that will benefit those who want to integrate art-care into individual practices or group facilitation. This book benefits socially engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half Title
• Authors
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Abbreviations
• Glossary
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Preface
• Part 1 Communidreaming on Theory
• Part 2 Spontaneous Creating on Practice
• Part 3 Gestating on Service
• Appendix 1 Thirteen Matrixial Aesthetic Practices
• Appendix 2 Facilitating Art-Care Online
• Appendix 3 A-D-ness Model by R. Michael Fisher
• Appendix 4 Excerpt From Opening Doors: A Guidebook to Spontaneous Creation-Making
• Appendix 5 Participant-Informed Research Creation Consent Form
• Index